Blog Post 12/12

Blog Post Title: 12/12 Wearables are Dead

What do you think about wearables?
What happened to Pebble?
What is the name of Google's wearable OS?
What two companies are around in this market?
What happened to Pebble's business?

Blog Post 12/8

Blog Post Title: 12/8 AT&T is Full of It

What did AT&T say about it's merger?
What do federal lawmakers think about this deal?
What did the CEO say to these lawmakers?
What is AT&T entangled in at the moment?
What does AT&Ts policy conflict with?
What do you think about this policy?

BTW, here's a quick video on net neutrality if you are interested in knowing what it is: https://www.commoncraft.com/video/net-neutrality

Blog Post 12/7

Blog Post Title: 12/7 Amazon Open Convenience Store w/ No Lines

How will people be billed for items purchased?
What did they use to make the technology?
What do they call the technology?
How large will the stores be?
What are people saying about this program?
What other stores does Amazon have?
What do you think about this concept?

Blog Post 12/6

Blog Post Title: 12/6 A New Cash for Clunkers

What is Cash for Clunkers?
What did the program do?
What would be the reason for reintroducing this program?
How much would this technology cost?
What would the new program be designed to do?
What's the critical problem in the car space?
What do you think about a program like this?  Should the government incentivize safer cars?  Why or Why not?

Blog Post 12/5

Blog Post Title: 12/5 Facebook, Twitter, Google Fail to Curb Hate Speech

What have these companies failed to do?
Do you think that social media should curb hate speech?
What company was the fastest to respond to complaints?
Which was the slowest?
Do you think the US should pass laws similar to what the EU does?

Blog Post 12/2

Hey guys!

I'm not there today obviously, I'm currently at a PD thing where I get to learn things, I'm stoked........

Anywho, we're gonna pump the brakes on the laptop checks today.  We will continue them on Monday when I return.

Though, you have plenty of work to do today.  You have several things due today, and some due next Friday.

To Recap:

1) Help Desk Handbook -- to be completed by 2:30 today
2) Annotated Bibliography -- to be completed by 2:30 today
3) The Website Building -- Directions are located here
4) Genius Hour Blog for the Day

Long story short, there a bunch of things you should probably be getting done today.

Email me if you have any questions.

Blog Post 12/1

Blog Post Link: 12/1 Netflix Lets You Download Videos

What will Netflix now allow users to do?
What shows does this service mostly favor?
What is the major competition of this new service?
Which devices are comparable with offline viewing?
What was Netflix’s initial opinion on offline viewing and how has that changed?

Blog Post 11/30

Hey guys,

I have 6 things listed on the board that you should consider doing before they are due.  Get on it.

Blog Post Title: 11/30 The Internet Archive is Moving to Canada

What is the Internet Archive?
Why is it moving?
What's on the Internet Archive?
What's a petabyte?

Blog Post 11/29

Blog Post 11/29: The Next Generation of TV

What is the name of this new service?
How much does it cost?
When does it come out?
Where can you stream this TV?
What about NFL games?
Would you buy something like this?
What's the benefit of this over traditional programming on TVs?

Blog Post 11/28

Welcome Back!!!

Here's today's Blog Post

Blog Post Title 11/28: San Fran Made Public Transit Free

Why were people able to take Public Transit for Free?
What is the attack an example of?
What is ransomware?
When did the delays start?

Blog Post 11/22

Happy Early Thanksgiving!

I found something cool you may want Santa to bring you this year.  Check out today's Blog, I even whitelisted the video for you.

Blog Title: 11/22 Nerf's Ridiculous tank Drone

How big is the new nerf tank?
How many darts does it hold?
How fast is it?
How is it operated?
How much is this thing?
Would you buy one.